Name

svk admin dump — Dump the contents of filesystem to stdout.

Synopsis

svk admin dump REPOS_PATH [-r LOWER[:UPPER]] [--incremental]

Description

Dump the contents of filesystem to stdout in a
“dumpfile” portable format, sending feedback
to stderr. Dump revisions
LOWER rev through
UPPER rev. If no revisions are
given, dump all revision trees. If only
LOWER is given, dump that one
revision tree. See the section called “”
for a practical use.

If the size of your Subversion dumpfile is a concern,
you can use the --deltas switch to (in
some cases drastically) reduce the size of the dumpfile
that svk admin creates. With this
switch, instead of writing the full content of each
revision to the dumpfile, svk admin dump
will only emit the differences from one revision to the
next. There are, however, disadvantages to creating
deltified dumpfiles—it's more CPU intensive to
create them, svndumpfilter can't
operate on them, and non-deltified dumpfiles tend to
compress better.